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• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow
• Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others… — David Bohm
• We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better… — Pema Chodron
• Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. — Charles Nodier
• If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to… — Steven Pinker
• Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
• There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by… — Mortimer Adler

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